David Caddis

David Caddis, vice president of the Application Infrastructure Management (AIM) Group, is responsible for products and services that help customers optimize the value they receive from their e-business technology investments. Under the AIM umbrella – which includes solutions for IBM’s WebSphere and WebSphere MQ suite of products – Candle provides consulting, services and tools to help customers build, run and manage the enterprise’s application and integration infrastructure upon which e-business depends.

Caddis joined Candle in 1987 as a program manager for the company’s MVS performance management products and has since held a number of positions, including general manager of Candle’s application integration business, vice president and general manager of eBusiness Assurance® (eBA®) solutions, assistant vice president of solutions management, manager of technical marketing support, and director of integration and automation solutions.

Prior to joining Candle, Caddis served as director of marketing and consulting for Nichols and Co., a project management software company in Culver City, Calif.

The rush to architect a new e-business environment required IT departments to
meld existing infrastructure with new Web-based systems. To achieve speed to
market, IT environments were forged by necessity and quickly retooled to
enable Internet-based functionality. Often, these hastily deployed enterprise
environments can be complicated, cumbersome, and expensive to maintain. Added
system demands, coupled with shifting business requirements, can cause
instability and performance degradation that ripples from back-end systems to
front-end user interfaces - resulting in a negative impact on the bottom
line.
To extend the value of their IT investments, businesses are turning to IBM's
WebSphere, a universal Internet software platform, to support flexible IT
initiatives and provide the performance and scalability required for
e-business. No longer confined to "test-tube"... (more)

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